On 1/8/19 2:57 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote: > There was some confusion about what these functions did. Make it clear > that this is a hint for upper layers to pass to the block layer, and > that it does not guarantee that I/O will not be submitted between a > start and finish plug. Thanks Jeff, that's definitely an improvement, I like how it's phrased as intent, there are no guarantees and we can change things down the line as well (the auto-unplug threshold is a good example of that). Applied for 5.0. -- Jens Axboe